The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-30
BALD, Bare and Gaunt---Alas
Too Familiar"
Another Demonstration in Dublin
Over the Arrests of Priests.


LONDON, March 29.-In the House of
Commons to-day Mr.. Gladstone resumed
the debate on the Irish Criminal Law
Amendment bill. He was loudly
cheered when he arose. He said that in
an issue SO grave. proposals so extreme
as these now put forth by the govern
ment. required ample time for considera-
tion He found himself bound to sup
port Mr.. Parnell's amendment. because
the ground upon which Mr.. Balfour
based the Governments case was absO-
lutely insufficient and unsatisfactory.
The Governments bill instead of being a
cure for Irish ills, or even a pallia-
tive, was measure that would ag-
gravate the deepest seated and worst
exclaims Mr.. Gladstone, 1.-The prospect
Of Cancellation has vanished into thin
air. The government intends to exclude
the Land Bill, which was the main
recommendation of the commission
which has Just completed an exhaustive
investigation of the Irish trouble. Moth
ing remains but the figure of coercion
bare. bold and gannt-alas! too ia
miliar. The Right Hon. Chief Secretary
for Ireland has attempted to excuse the
proposals. on the ground that crime in
Ireland during the two years has
increased, but he has followed
an unusual course in refraining from
giving the House official information
proving his allegations" The statistics
Of crime in Ireland were against the
Government. Take the instance given
Of threatening letters. In 1885 432 such
letters were received. In 1886 but IS
more were received. That hardly fur
nished a ground for asking Parliament
to assent to the extreme measure of
coercion. Other classes of crime
amounted in 1885 to sig, and in 1885 to
517. Opposition cheers). This increase
was described as the main reason for the
extreme demand of the Government. If
Mr.. Balfour has further private informa-
ton, let him speak. 1t was the first
time he (Gladstone) knew~Of anonymous
communications being pressed on Par
Lament in support of demand for legis-
lation. (Cheers).
Here he referred in detail to the cases
adduced by Mr.. Balfour Of League
tyranny over persons. Continuing, he
said that boycotting was bad enough,
but he was not confined to Natioaalists.
He knew of a Protestant clergyman who
he was a Home Ruler. Continual allu-
sion had been made to the previous
Liberal coercion proposals. In 1881,
when his government proposed coercion,
the ground was the agitator then exist
ing. Wherever he went, he was
dogged by crime. For the pres
ent bill there was no excuse. A
demand was made upon the House to
commit the most formidable breach of
trust that the popular assembly could
perpetrate, to relax the conditions upon
which alone Parliament should sanction
. change in the criminal law in order
that the law might fall with increased
stringency upon particular portion of
the Queens subjects. The opposition
would insist upon having the fullest OPP
portunity to examine the provisions of
the bill. Every Irish and every English
member should have the fullest scope
for presenting his views Cheers and
for sitting and scrutinizing the extreme
proposals Of the Government
INSULTING AND ExAsPERATING.
Among its most insulting and
exnsperating proposals the worst
ever submitted to Parliament,
was the provision that Irish trials shall
be held in London. He had never known
such blow at the national feeling of
Ireland The Government could have
devised nothing more likely to aggra-
vate every existing evil.
As to the permanent duration of the
bill, the proposals made ones blood boil
To establish what was formerly only
temporary remedy as a permanent rule
OF existence for society in Ireland would
put the brand Of inferiority upon Ireland
forever. recognizing as fixed principle
that force was the remedy. The lesson
OF many years showed that force was no
remedy.
ErFEcTs OF LIBERAL MEASURES
Since the election of 1885, since the
bulk of the Liberals had Judged that it
was both right and safe to grant Home
Rule, Ireland had been free from crime
and outrage condition long unknown.
Why was this? 1t was because the Irish
people knew that large-though an in
sufficiently large-body of Liberals had
adopted their interests and would abide
by them to the last. Cheers.1 If the
Liberals acceded to the appeals of the
Government the result would be retro
gression. The Irish people would re
turn to that state of things which Lib
eral efforts had already partly rem
edied. So long as Ireland con-
tinued in her press mt course of mod
Grafton. so long would the Liberals
be found to persevere in their endeavors
to assist her. The time would soon
come when to the many now supporting
the cause of Ireland, would be added
many more; when deplorable proposals.
such rs those of the government would
no more be associated with the name Of
Ireland, and when il would be seen that
in doing what they could now to serve
the Irish ause, they were also serving
the cause Of the wide empire Of Great
Britain. Prolonged cheering